Triumph Of The Nerds!!
Journalist Robert Cringley's 3-hour saga of the personal computer is a sprawling, gutsy masterpiece that tells it like it is, presenting for viewer approval(or disapproval)the characters, places and anecdotes that are part of the birth, growing pains and refinement of "that damn box", as some folks might call it.
It's all there: software, hardware, geeks, nerds, money, power, ambition, hunger, anxiety.
Brokem into a 3 part series, this is some highly recommended viewing, without a doubt!
The film chronicles the rise of the personal computer/home computer beginning in the 1970s with the Altair 8800, Apple I and Apple II and VisiCalc. It continues through the IBM PC and Apple Macintosh revolution through the 1980s and the mid 1990s at the beginning of the Dot-com boom. It includes interviews with Apple Computer's Steve Jobs and Microsoft's Bill Gates.
It's all there: software, hardware, geeks, nerds, money, power, ambition, hunger, anxiety.
Brokem into a 3 part series, this is some highly recommended viewing, without a doubt!
The film chronicles the rise of the personal computer/home computer beginning in the 1970s with the Altair 8800, Apple I and Apple II and VisiCalc. It continues through the IBM PC and Apple Macintosh revolution through the 1980s and the mid 1990s at the beginning of the Dot-com boom. It includes interviews with Apple Computer's Steve Jobs and Microsoft's Bill Gates.
runtime= 50min 37secs
